Alexis Bledel

The always elegant Alexis Bledel proved that Hollywood actresses did not always have to be caught up with paparazzi and partying. The petite and preppy star completed a year as a film major at NYU but...
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13 Models Who Flawlessly Transitioned Into Acting

Before they were gracing our big and small screens, they were strutting runways and mugging for fashion ads. Where would Hollywood be without models-turned-actors? With her new role in Paper Towns, Cara Delevingne seems to be the latest model to make the transition. And from the looks of it, it seems like she'll be successful. Here's a list of some other pretty people who have proven they can act, too! (Jury's still out on Kate Upton...)
1. Cara Delevingne
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She first appeared in Anna Karenina starring Keira Knightley, and now she’s set to star in Paper Towns, the film based on the beloved John Green novel.
2. Caitriona Balfe
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Did you know this Outlander actress was a former Victoria’s Secret model? Must be why she wears all of those 18th century corsets so well. (That gif is her walking the Marc Jacobs runway in 2003. Werk.)
3. Jaime King
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Before she was acting in Hart of Dixie and being BFFs with Taylor Swift, Jaime King modeled for Vogue and walked the runways as “James King.”
4. Shay Mitchell
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This Canadian beauty modeled all over the world before landing her Pretty Little Liars gig. But she still puts her modeling skills to good use by posting killer selfies on Instagram.
5. Ashton Kutcher
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He placed first in a "Fresh Faces of Iowa" modeling competition and dropped out of college to pursue modeling in New York. His modeling career was short-lived, though. In 1998, he landed the role of Kelso in That '70s Show.
6. Jamie Dornan
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Yes, we know he's everywhere these days, but before he was the star of Fifty Shades of Grey, Jamie was just your average smoking hot Calvin Klein model.
7. Katherine Heigl
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As a teen model in the '90s, Katherine graced the cover of Seventeen magazine and pursued acting gigs at the same time. In 1999, she got the part of Isabel Evans in Roswell, but her real acting breakout came when she landed a role on Grey's Anatomy.
8. Josh Duhamel
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Ashton Kutcher actually lost a modeling competition to Josh in 1997.
9. Emily Ratajkowski
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This model got her first big break as the topless girl in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video, but quickly proved she was more than just a music video babe. She landed a key role in Gone Girl and set to star opposite Zac Efron in the upcoming flick We Are Your Friends.
10. Brooklyn Decker
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Brooklyn, best known for her work as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, made her film debut in Just Go With It and has since appeared in Battleship and What to Expect When You’re Expecting.
11. Alexis Bledel
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She was all over those Naturistics lip gloss ads (remember those?) in the late 90s before she graced our screens as Rory Gilmore in Gilmore Girls.
12. Channing Tatum
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After he was a stripper but before he became an actor, Channing was a model. He posed for ads for Nautica and Abercrombie.
13. January Jones
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Just like Betty Draper, January Jones used to be a model. But unlike Betty Draper, January went on to make an even better career for herself. And as we know from her Instagram #TBT pics, she wasn’t always so gorgeous and poised. There’s hope for everyone!
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"Ed Herrmann was a wonderful actor and a kind man. He was endlessly knowledgeable about theatre, TV and film, and would generously share his wisdom or tell stories from a long and rewarding career. I am grateful to him for that, and will miss him tremendously." Actress Alexis Bledel pays tribute to her Gilmore Girls grandfather, who died on New Year's Eve (31Dec14).

Beloved U.S. TV actor Edward Herrmann has died, aged 71.
The Gilmore Girls star, who also appeared on Grey's Anatomy, The Practice, St. Elsewhere, The Good Wife and Oz, passed away on 31 December (14) after a battle with brain cancer.
Herrmann began his onscreen acting career in the early 1970s with roles as baseball great Lou Gehrig and Franklin D. Roosevelt in TV movies. He also appeared in the films The Great Waldo Pepper, The Great Gatsby, The Betsy, Harry's War, Reds, The Purple Rose of Cairo and The Aviator.
Herrmann had just completed work on new film Coach of the Year, which is set for release later this year (15), when he fell ill.
The actor picked up a 1976 Best Actor Tony Award for his role in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession. He was nominated again in 1983 for Plenty. He portrayed President Franklin Roosevelt three times and hosted the documentary FDR: A Presidency Revealed.
Paying tribute to her late Gilmore Girls dad, actress Lauren Graham writes, "My friend Ed Herrmann was the kindest, classiest, most talented man. It was an honor and a joy to know him, a devastating blow to lose him."
His TV wife Kelly Bishop, who played Emily Gilmore on the Gilmore Girls, has also released a statement, which reads: "We, the Gilmore Girls family, are so terribly sad and somewhat stunned. We only learned about his illness a week or so ago. I got a call from (his wife) Star Monday night asking if I wanted to come to the hospital to say good-bye.
"I was able to give Ed love from Lauren, Alexis (Bledel) and Amy (Sherman-Palladino)... I have so many fond memories of our time together on Gilmore Girls and since, mainly via email. I think everyone who knew or worked with Ed found him to be absolutely delightful… Everything looks a little dim, as if the lights went down.”

Many mothers and daughters have a close relationship, but are they Gilmore Girls? Of course this question is referring to the awesome television show about a mother, Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and her daughter who has the same name but goes by Rory (Alexis Bledel). These Gilmore girls have a specific type of bond that many would envy. They are best friends. They have lovable and crazy traits. Also you can’t forget that they are gorgeous! Not sure if you and your mom fall into this category? Here are 12 signs to figure it out.
1. You are practically inseparable.
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2. You both rely on coffee, it's to the point where people say:
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3. Neither of you are particularly good cooks. Take out is your thing.
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4. You both are fiercely independent.
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5. Neither of you are morning people.
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6. A lot of your weekends are spent at home watching movies together. They don't even have to be good. Watching bad movies and being snarky about them are your specialty.
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7. You both always have something sarcastic to say. It gets so bad that your conversations sometimes get out of hand.
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8. When you stop and think about it, your love lives are pretty similar by being...complicated.
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9. Although you're the daughter, you have to check your mom a lot and tell her when she is being insane!
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10. Your mom is undoubtedly the best at throwing birthday parties!
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11. You're such a goody-two shoes that your mom actually wants to corrupt you.
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12. You have tried and failed to help your mom kick her hoarding addiction.
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How are you and your mom Gilmore girls? Let us know by tweeting the Twitter handles below!
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Maybe it's because we've been struggling to find one man to love us, let alone two, or maybe it's because it reduces pretty awesome female characters to a girl who can't decide which boy she loves, but we've grown a pretty tired of the love triangle trope saturating so many TV shows and movies. It seems like vampires are only ever happy if they're competing for a girl (and, of course, they simply must be vampires). Are there really no other ways to complicate a love story?
1. Sookie/Eric/Bill (True Blood)
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Sookie, waitress (who spends shockingly little time actually waiting tables) and faerie, loves vampire Bill Compton. She is "his," which is some pseudo-romantic vampire way of possessing a woman like an object, and along comes douchey bad-haired vampire Eric. She hates Eric at first, but then he cuts his hair and gets amnesia, forgetting he's actually a jerk, and they fall in love. And then the two vampires compete over her for, like, ever. After this whole love triangle (a square, if you consider her relationship with werewolf Alcide) ordeal fades, she ends the series with a rando who we don't meet. Umm, cool? At least we had some steamy moments of threesome fantasies.
2. Olivia/Jake/Fitz (Scandal)
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Is anyone into Olivia and Fitz anymore? We're not really sure there would be a show without this love triangle though, because Pope &amp; Prez need to be lovers torn apart, and, what with the First Lady generally approving of their relationship (and engaging in extramarital affairs of her own), something needs to keep them apart. Enter Jake, secret agent man. We like Olivia Pope best when she's wearing Burberry trenches and "handling" situations like nobody else can. We tolerate her love life (although we do cherish the non-booty calls and her standing up for herself).
3. Jack/Kate/Sawyer (Lost)
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We're not sure if we'll ever fully understand what happened on Lost, but we do know that the episodes weren't nearly as entertaining when they focused on this love triangle. Wasn't there enough going on here without this overplayed scenario?
4. Bella/Jacob/Edward (The Twilight Saga)
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As much as we tried to bury our head in the sand and avoid this book/film series, the cursed Team Edward/Team Jacob drama found a way to perpetually enter our lives. Its ubiquity alone is enough to grow tired of. As far as we're concerned, if we didn't like the vampire-werewolf-human triangle on True Blood (okay, Sookie isn't human, but you get it), we're certainly not going to enjoy one where the vampire sparkles.
5. Rory/Dean/Jess (Gilmore Girls)
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This is the love triangle we understand the most of all of these. No, not just because both Dean and Jess are irresistible and pretty unconditional in their affection for the perfect Rory Gilmore, but because Dean was sort of the first boy she had ever noticed. She started dating him, things were going smoothly, and then Jess came along. Understandably, when a bad boy who loves reading comes along, swooning is inevitable. Dean was a good first boyfriend, a bit too needy for our taste, and Jess made a huge mistake by, you know, leaving town while still dating Rory and not even saying anything, but we understood where she was coming from, at least. That still didn't make it enjoyable to watch Dean peacock and proclaim Stars Hollow as "his town."
6. Jack/Elizabeth/Will (Pirates of the Caribbean)
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Come on, Elizabeth! You can't just throw away your relationship every time Johnny Depp looks damn cute in a costume. You will never have a healthy love life that way.
7. Meredith/Derek/Addison (Grey's Anatomy)
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It's always a grey area when a TV show makes you ship a relationship between a married man and his mistress, and that's exactly what happened here. We liked Derek and Meredith with the complications they already faced - a one night stand that turned into the pair working at the same hospital (and the accusations that she was sleeping her way to the top). When Addison came back into the picture, it just annoyingly kept apart two characters we knew should be together.
8. Serena/Nate/Dan (Gossip Girl)
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The relationships on Gossip Girl mostly played like a square dance's exchange of partners, and we never liked Nate and Serena together (even though, goodness gracious, they were a gorgeous-looking couple) because he was her BFF's boyfriend. What happened to girl code, S? (To be fair, Blair then went for Lonely Boy despite his former relationship with Serena). Eventually, this show's only relationship we rooted for was strangely Chuck and Blair.
9. Katniss/Peeta/Gale (The Hunger Games)
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This one never seemed like much of a love triangle to us. As we read the book, and even in the first movie, we sort of felt like, "Gale who?" It was always Peeta. Katniss and Gale's relationship was strictly platonic, despite Hemsworth's hunkiness. His attractiveness is all he has going for him, and it's squandered by his jealousy. Peeta, on the other hand, is cute, caring, maybe a little needy, but we dig it. The real attraction to the movies/books lies in the revolution though (which is greatly motivated by Katniss' desire to rescue Peeta, further proof of his superiority).
10. Buffy/Angel/Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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Seriously, what is it about vampire relationships that leads to love triangles? This is a little ridiculous. Buffy and Angel are perfect beyond words, a modern supernatural Romeo and Juliet plagued not by sparring families, but by an ancient curse, and Spike had vampire impotence and made a Buffy-bot. Really? We liked Buffy and Spike's banter, but the romance between the two always felt a bit wrong to us (and even Spike didn't believe her when she said she loved him).
11. Ross/Rachel/Joey (Friends)
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Why. Did. This. Happen. Ross and Rachel, the annoyingly on-again, off-again, "we-were-on-a-break" couple everyone shipped throughout the 90s, were each other's lobsters. Joey, the show's resident Casanova, suddenly falls in love with her, even though she has Ross' baby? Whose decision was that?

The holidays can be stressful: you have to deal with making travel plans, finding the perfect gifts and of course, spending quality time with your family. When you have a bunch of relatives together for an extended period, you can be almost certain that something will go wrong. Luckily Lorelai, Rory and the other characters on Gilmore Girls know all about putting up with family and can offer some tips for handling any situation.
When you find out dinner isn't for another hour:
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You're just here for the food.
Make sure to stay caffeinated:
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It's going to be a long day.
When your nieces won't stop running around:
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There's a reason why you don't have kids.
When you inevitably get asked if you're seeing anyone:
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Or how school is going:
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Or what you plan on doing with your life:
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Just resist the urge to do something like this:
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When it's finally time to eat:
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When your uncle decides to bring up politics at dinner:
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The worst idea ever.
And instead of ignoring him, people start to argue:
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Just keep some alcohol close by:
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When you talk to that one cousin who is over it as much as you:
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Instead of getting frustrated by your family, just laugh it off:
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Enjoy the absurdity of it all.
In the end, no matter how annoying your family can be, you still love them. And being with loved ones is what the holidays are all about.
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The big news of a Gilmore Girls reunion hit the internet and has understandably caused some excitement! The hit television show will get the panel it deserves in June 2015 at the ATX Television Festival. Fans love this show to this day thanks to its wonderfully, witty writing and the depiction of the strong ties between mother and daughter.
1. Isn't this the reason we all love Luke?
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2. This is what people who work in customer service think once a day.
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3. It's a dark thought, but funny.
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4. Nope, we couldn't do it!
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5. One of the many reasons why you shouldn't skip laundry day.
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6. We can't leave out Paris' crazy.
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7. Truer words have never been spoken...
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8. We've all had those sucky days...
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9. We don't believe you Lorelai, no one likes slow internet!
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10. Who doesn't love a drunk Sookie?
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11. How every college student feels...
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12. Below is the perfect reaction to Lorelai's parents.
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13. Night owls can totally relate.
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14. Don't we all...
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15. Now remember, this quote if you ever come across someone who has never heard of Gilmore Girls and is wondering why you are so excited...
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Tweet us your favorite Gilmore Girls quotes using the Twitter handles below!
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Actress America Ferrera and her Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants co-stars reunited for a brunch date on Monday (15Sep14). The former Ugly Betty star, along with Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively and Amber Tamblyn, showed their offscreen friendship still lives on, as they caught up over lunch and delighted fans with a photo of their meeting.
Ferrera posted the selfie on Instagram.com, along with the caption, "Always a good day when I'm with my sisters #DeLosPantalones (of the pants) Love these amazing women."
The picture also features Bledel in her first public snap since marrying Mad Men co-star Vincent Kartheiser during a secret ceremony in June (14).
The original Sisterhood film, based on author Ann Brashares' series of the same name, came out nearly 10 years ago, and in April (14), Ferrera hinted that the foursome is eager to reprise its roles for a third installment in the series.
She told Entertainment Weekly magazine that she was hoping author Ann Brashares' fifth book in the Sisterhood book series could be turned into a movie, explaining, "It picks up 10 years after the fourth book, so the characters are all basically the ages that we are now. I know that the four of us would love it (to make another film), and it would be wonderful."
The foursome previously reprised its characters for a 2008 Sisterhood sequel, and Ken Kwapis, the director of the original, has signed on to make a third movie, titled Sisterhood Everlasting.

Actress Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser reportedly wed in a secret ceremony in California In June (14). The Mad Men stars have been dating since 2012 and they tied the knot at the Ojai Rolling Thunder Ranch in front of family members and famous friends, including Jon Hamm and show creator Matthew Weiner, according to Star magazine.
A sources tells the publication, "Alexis looked breathtaking. She wore a floor-length gown, and her hair was up. Vincent wore a grey suit and teared up when Alexis walked down the aisle."
This is the first marriage for the couple, who announced its engagement in March, 2013.
A representative for Bledel did not return WENN's request for confirmation.

Actress America Ferrara's film dreams look set to become reality - Alloy Entertainment executives are developing a new Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie. Just last year (13), the Ugly Betty star confirmed she and her pals Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel would love to make a third film in the series - and now it looks like the quartet will get its chance to reunite before cameras.
Ferrara told Entertainment Weekly magazine that she was hoping author Ann Brashares' fifth book in the Sisterhood book series could be turned into a movie, explaining, "It picks up 10 years after the fourth book, so the characters are all basically the ages that we are now. I know that the four of us would love it (to make another film), and it would be wonderful."
Ferrera, Tamblyn, Lively and Bledel have all become close friends since teaming up for the first film back in 2005; they reprised their characters for a 2008 Sisterhood sequel, and now Ken Kwapis, the director of the original, has signed on to make a third movie, titled Sisterhood Everlasting.

Featured opposite Juno Temple and Michael Angarano in fantasy-thriller "The Brass Teapot"

Cast in supporting role in Robert Redford's historical drama "The Conspirator"

Played a recent college graduate who moves back in with her family in "Post Grad"

Appeared in local productions of "Our Town" and "The Wizard of Oz"

Made feature film debut as an extra in "Rushmore"

Began modeling at age 14

Joined a theater group at age eight to overcome shyness

Co-starred as Lena in coming-of-age story "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"

Featured in "Sin City," the adaptation of Frank Miller's uber-noir series of graphic novels co-directed by Miller and Robert Rodriguez

Made TV debut, playing breakthrough role of Rory Gilmore on The WB family drama series "Gilmore Girls"

Reprised role of Lena in sequel "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2"

Summary

The always elegant Alexis Bledel proved that Hollywood actresses did not always have to be caught up with paparazzi and partying. The petite and preppy star completed a year as a film major at NYU but had to put her studies on hold after getting cast as Rory in the long-running drama "Gilmore Girls" (WB, 2000-07). Bledel also showed big screen star power, taking on the role of Lena Kaligaris in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" (2005) and its 2008 sequel, based on the best-selling novels of Ann Brashares. If Paris Hilton dominated one end of the young Hollywood spectrum, it was a no-brainer that Bledel ruled the other with her naturally born talent, sophisticated taste and intellectual demeanor.